“America’s Long History of Prison Abuse” http://www.counterpunch.org/reed05112004.html

“Torture IS an American Value” http://www.brianwillson.com/awoltortureamvalue.html

“Torture in American Prisons” http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2006/11/torture_in_american_prisons.html

“American Prison Camps Are On the Way”
http://www.alternet.org/rights/42458/

“A New Record in Prison Nation” http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/11/30/1169/3582
“A record 7 million people – or one in every 32 American adults – were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.

More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.” (November 30, 2006)

The above video and links don’t even go into the death penalty issue, where most executions worldwide are carried out in a handful of countries, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Just to note, George Bush, while govenor of Texas, ordered more executions than any govenor in US history, 131!! http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/061100-01.htm
Read here, “How Many Retarded People did George Bush Execute”
http://www2.bc.edu/~sydnor/2.html

I am an American, and I am UTTERLY ASHAMED!!!!